Here’s possibly the coolest thing I’ve seen all day. Some deck builder (that’s skateboards not verandas) over in Canada has specced out his board-building school with a very special staircase
As eager students hurry towards the basement to learn the ancient craft of skateboard construction, their scuffed up Supras and dirty Vans will have to navigate [...]

So this is how it is: you’re living in a shared flat, your flatmate Dave has annoyed you once too often – he’s nicked your milk *again* and left crumbs in your margarine.
You’ve seen the Godfather a billion times and you know he’s showing you far too little respect. This shmoe needs to get da [...]

I’m sometimes seduced by the idea of downsizing and living on the road, but I find modern mobile living solutions are inherently fugly (admittedly with some exceptions; design classic the Airstream caravan for one, and the Comfort Caravan below ain’t bad neither).
Now I think I’ve found the answer. Teeny, tiny houses made of wood! And [...]

The French – not usually a people who drop the ball when it comes to style – have not only recently dropped it but have also hoofed it out of the Stade de France
Specifically it’s their President’s fault. For Monsieur Sarkozy has expressed a desire to remodel Parisian suburbs after that apogee of English suburban [...]

It’s caravanning, Jim, but not as we know it.
Q: How do you turn the old-fashioned caravan into a trendy affair?
A: It’s easy! Simply:
1. Include the word Pod in the blurb
2. Manufacture it in a lurid funky colour
3. Give it a catchy name
4. Market it to ‘urbanites’
And, hey presto, welcome to the brand new world of [...]

Here’s a great way to get yourself a free house. Pose as an artist, say you want to create a gallery/meeting space that’s environmentally sound and get your local community to donate all their scrap wood and raw materials that would otherwise end up lying in a skip somewhere.
Now that’s not entirely what German designers [...]

You wouldn’t necessarily want to live next door to Dubai. Not if you were concerned about neighbourly one-upmanship.
Call that a garden shed? Look, my friend, our new garden shed is an 800 metre spinning tower built in the shape of a palm tree with an Alpine ski slope in the basement…
The latest in Dubai’s quest [...]

Okay, I absolutely promise that this is my last blog on Kevin McCloud for the rest of the year month week.
But as reported here, Kev’s company Hab (Happiness architecture beauty – and yes the lowercase acronym is intentional) got a bit of bad press over their decision to part ways with architects Wright and Wright.
In [...]

What the … eh? … awww ain’t it cute!
The latest offering from achingly trendy design mavericks SuckUK has sparked a bit of a heated debate here in the FAP Editorial Suite.
Well, it did once we’d all stopped laughing like loons at the sight of this slightly indignant looking cat ‘flying’ a WWII plane.
Look, he seems [...]

One I made earlier? Not quite … still
Lily Allen, the prolific blogger and occasional popstar who always sometimes gives the impression she simply must tell the world about every thought as it enters her head, has created a small yet important ripple in the world of architecture.
Why? She simply let slip, in typical brazen-as-you-like style, [...]